What to muse about today?

As we were trying to herd the kids tonight, Stu told me he sent today’s blog entry. Yeah, yeah I thought. We’ll see about that. Maybe I want to write about how Ashlin discovered how to use a snack trap. Or maybe how quickly she can get to standing now. Or how she will not just sit any more, but needs to crawl, or move or something. Or even what Teagan dreamed about the other night – not twinkle stars! Or maybe about the funny thing Teagan said while getting her ready for bed.

Well, you know what? He was right! He had sent me this link:

I haven’t been able to watch too much of it yet, but OMFG!!1! it’s awesome.

Not yet. She’s not crawling yet. And last night, she wasn’t sleeping. Well, not until way too late. Inhumanly late. I’m begining to think she’s going just a rude and inconsiderate baby. Stu woke me up around 1:40 to go up to bed. She had been downstairs since 10:00.

It’s just not right.

We both got comments about how tired and run down we looked today.

She’s also not crawling yet. Still. Though she’s still working on it.

She also doesn’t like to say “mama”, though she is more than capable of saying it. She has. If I’m in the room, she just won’t. She gave me the one “mama” on New Year’s, so that’s enough for her.

Not like this video that Stu shared earlier today. Which is awesome. Just, not my baby. Quite the opposite. Sigh.

Musical Taste Meme

Patrick tagged me on Facebook for this meme. It seems that these have migrated from blogs to Facebook. Anyway, as I have very limited access to Facebook, but more to the net, let’s just move it here :) No tags, no pressure :)

If I tagged you, it’s because I genuinely think you have some interesting musical tastes…and because it might be entertaining to see what your MP3 player finds in your music collection. So please do this and share, even if I didn’t tag you! Just don’t forget to tag me in your post. :)

1) Turn on your MP3 player or iPod, or music player on your computer.

2) Go to SHUFFLE songs mode.

3) Write down the first 20 songs that come up — song title and artist — NO editing or cheating, please!

4) Choose 25 people (or however many makes you happy) to be tagged. It is generally considered to be in good taste to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I’m betting that your musical selection is amusing.

To do this, go to the “NOTES” tab on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, enter your 20 shuffle songs, tag 25 people (under the post) then click Publish.

Man, it almost looks like I had my Irish play list selected. LOL! I had to check to be sure I was indeed on “Songs.” The way the shuffle was working this afternoon, I think I’m glad that I haven’t transferred over any Christmas music yet! So, let’s throw in a bonus 10 songs, as this has been so much fun :)

So, I got tagged by Tina and Nina in Facebook, on this internet meme… I think I’ve done something like this before, a few years ago, but there’s always time to improve the counts :)

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety. Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt.

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis – Isn’t this part of the Chronicles of Narnia? Maybe they should have listed another CS Lewis book here, like That Hideous Strength or Till We Have Faces?

The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres

Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne

Animal Farm – George Orwell

The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving

The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery – loved the movies

Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

Atonement – Ian McEwan

Life of Pi – Yann Martel

Dune – Frank Herbert

Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen – saw the movie

A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

The Secret History – Donna Tartt

The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas – I feel like I must have read this in French.

On The Road – Jack Kerouac

Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie – I read Satanic Verses, does that count?

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read.
2) Tally your total at the bottom.
3) Tag others and pass it on. If I tagged you, it is because I think you love to read, like me!

I’m always amazed at the current books that make these types of list. Not that there’s anything wrong with that!

So, I tally 49 (or 51, if you count the partial two). Not too shabby! TPTB (or whoever make these lists) need to have a bit more faith…

BBC’s original listing can be found here. This one isn’t too far off… Though it had to have been done here in the US, as Pratchett isn’t on the one going around Facebook now. I’ll pop the BBC’s original with my x’s in here shortly :)

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In April 2003 the BBC’s Big Read began the search for the nation’s best-loved novel, and we asked you to nominate your favourite books.

You scored as Modern Liberal. You are a Modern Liberal. Science and historical study have shown so much of the Bible to be unreliable and that conservative faith has made Jesus out to be a much bigger deal than he actually was. Discipleship involves continuing to preach and practice Jesus’ measure of love and acceptance, and dogma is not important in today’s world. You are influenced by thinkers like Bultmann and Bishop Spong.

Simply put, yes, you had one fucked up life and its left its mark. Drunken Christmas Eve’s, dads leather belt, kneeling on broomsticks, that friendly uncle who was a little too friendly…people treated you with less love and respect than you deserved. If its any consolation, I’m angry enough to send some bad vibes their way. No one likes a bully, so remember this was not your fault. Besides, nothing is set in stone. The most important thing is that you become your own person, capable of love and bliss- by your own definition.

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: